training of the theological school. J. K. Kilbourn, of '68, went to Mexico for some years of serviee there, and Thomas L. Riggs followed his father in his noble work among the Dakotas. From '69 John W. Baird went to European Turkey, and James D. Eaton, D. D., to Chihuahua, Mexico; and from '70 William W. Curtis went to Japan. The class of '71 gave T. D. Christie, D. D., and the class of '73 W. C. Dewey, D. D., both to Asiatic Turkey. Two more names are added to this same mission field from the class of '77, namely, C. F. Gates, D. D., and J. A. Ainslie.

During this decade no college furnished more men for foreign service to the American Board than our own except Amherst, and no other college gave an equal number to that Board but Yale.

Of the later classes, besides those already named, D. A. Richardson, of '81, served some years in the Turkish mission to which his father had given his life; and J. E. Jacobson, of '82, is laboring with T. L. Riggs among the Dakotas. Of the twenty-two names mentioned, four should be assigned to the North American Indians, four to Mexico, seven to Turkey, two to India, one to Siam, two to China and two to Japan.

Besides these, ought to be mentioned A. C. Walkup of Wisconsin, who studied but did not graduate here; George Ford, D. D., one of the most useful men in the Syrian mission, who took his early years of study here but graduated at Williams; William D. Alexander, President of Oahu College, a tutor for some years here; and Henry M. Riggs, who studied here before he joined his brother among the Dakotas; besides the Indians, Eli Abraham, Samuel Hopkins, James Garvey, James Lynd and John and Charles A. Eastman who studied here and returned to labor among their fellow Indians.

Perhaps the most distinct Beloit missionary circle abroad is to be found in Pang Chuang, China, where are Porter and

Smith of '67,"par nobile fratrum" to quote Professor Emerson again, "companions rather than competitors in study at college, and now. with their wives (also of our college circle, and one of them daughter of President Chapin) and with the sister of Dr. Porter, forming a center of grace and truth in China." There are pairs of Beloit men, however, in other fields, together, or not so far apart but they can call out to one another some cheering message through the watches of the night. But whether near or far, they carry in their hearts the spirit and temper, which the College taught them and which through all passing years and all life's changes of condition and circumstance, they cannot forget. Their letters from their fields over and again bear that witness.

Beloit greets them with affectionate pride on her golden anniversary. They are her worthy sons, and in all the corners of the earth, whatever be the language or dialect, the accent of their speech is her accent. We cannot recount their achievements in words to-day, but the hearts of many of us swell as we think of them. They are working in formative, if not plastic periods of history. The China, Japan, Turkey and Mexico of to-morrow will not be the China, Japan, Turkey and Mexico of yesterday. And when the history of these rehabilitated empires is written, men will not forget, or if they do, God will not forget what our little group in Pang Chuang has done, what Davis in Japan, what Eaton in Mexico, what Christie and Gates and Dewey in Turkey, and what their fellows who represent this College in these and other fields have done toward the great reconstruction.

In the historic places of the world some of them are standing. In Mosul, the ancient Nineveh, there is Ainslie, and in the home of Alexander, there is Baird, laying foundations of New Empires. In the land of Gautama there are the memory of Wells and the bones of Northrup. At the headwaters of the great river of Babylon there are Dewey and Gates, capable men, with thronged class-rooms. When

the University of Edinburgh recently conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Mr. Gates they mentioned as the reasons for the honor-they have a way over there that sometimes might be embarrassing on this side the water, of stating the reasons for the degrees they give,--they mentioned his distinguished service to humanity during and after the Armenian massacres, as well as his scholarly attainments in three languages. And in Tarsus, birthplace of St. Paul there is Christie, president of the Institute which bears, not without reason, the name of the great apostle. From the ruined castle near by, in which Antony entertained Cleopatra, his boys are taking stones to go into the new college. walls. And the pillar on which his observatory telescope rests, stands on an old Roman arch built there before the days of Paul.

So are our Beloit brothers, well 'round the world, building new centuries upon old centuries, and replacing cruel and dark civilizations by the institutions and the enlightenment of a better day. Through them Beloit finds a voice afar off. In them President Chapin and Professor Blaisdell and their brothers of the elder days are speaking still. For the finest and most potent thing they carry is the spirit they got at Beloit, which is a spirit of consecration and of light. It will prevail, too. For Beloit herself got it from Him who is the true light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

NOTE. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, of the class which graduated in 1897, and who now is to go as the special representative of Beloit to assist President C. F. Gates, Beloit, '77, at Euphrates College, Harpoot, Turkey, should now be added to the list of the foreign missionaries of the first half century, making their number: Graduates of Beloit, 22; non-graduates, 9. Total, 31.

THE COLLEGE AND THE MINISTRY.

REV. F. B. PULLAN, CLASS OF 1871.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.

Mr. President and Friends of Beloit College:

It is the highest honor I can ever expect from alma mater to be the representative, on this great occasion, of the large and noble class of men she has sent into the world to do the work of the Christian ministry. It is fitting that at this jubilee observance when the influence of the College for the first half century of its existence is revived, those who have entered the ranks of the Christian ministry should have some special recognition, since there was a time when it seemed as if the college influence was centered upon securing students who should become clergymen. Nor is this to be marvelled at when we remember that the larger part of the board of trustees from the beginning were themselves clergymen, and that the honored members of the faculty at first were obtained from the same ranks. He whose revered memory and notable influence we this day embalm in marble-the honored first president, and he who now so worthily follows him and fills the chair were both pastors before they were presidents, and the proportion of all graduates who have gone out, who have entered the work of the ministry of the gospel exceeds that of any other one sphere of lifework. The influence of the college in the lives of such as are preachers of righteousness in Christ from pulpits in the

land is felt from New England's shores to the lake regions of the Interior, and throughout the New West to the Far West. In the midst of the city's masses and millionaires; in the home missionary's prairie parish and hill-country wilderness; in the foreign fields; beneath the shadows of the oldest centers of culture in the land, and amidst the newest and wildest forces of this fierce nineteenth-century life, have Beloit's sons as Christian ministers stood and still stand, honored each in his place, faithful, according to the fashioning which the College formed in and for him, during those days of his student training according to the pattern found in Christ.

This large class of her graduates during these fifty years look to her to-day, those who are still in the earth strife, with the affection of loving sons and with the glow of an inspiration that quickens every pure passion as they recall what "old Beloit" did for them.

But it seems clear that the chief place, at least in point of proportion, is not in the future to be held by the preachers that Beloit sends forth. The time has past when the college will be thought of as chiefly a preparatory school for the theological seminary.

Her sphere is to be-is already, larger than even one so noble as that.

She is to henceforth prepare Christian men and women for every work of God. She is to so culture her students as to leave upon each one the deep impression that God calls him—no matter in what sphere of work He sends him, and in thus preparing lives for educated influential usefulness in all the walks of life, she will achieve larger success than the splendid results which we all so gratefully acknowledge at this time.